It's a function of the email client that receives it. By the way, your example URL works just fine with a click in PowerMail -- even though the line is broken.
Some email clients are good, some or not so good. Richard Hart Bill Courington wrote: >Some correspondents complain that a message from me containing a long >URL arrives with a linefeed breaking it into two lines. Clicking the >link in their mail client then does not work. > >Here's an example: <http://www.google.com/search? >client=safari&rls=en&q=18+point+angle+stop+handle&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>

